browserosaurus

🦖 The browser prompter for macOS

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🦖 The browser prompter for macOS

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Since you mention Mail/Messages, I assume you are on macOS. I had a similar issue - wanting to always open links from Slack in Chrome, but links from elsewhere in Brave. I use…

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banditelol·May 31, 2025

I tried this before, but since I often need to open different browser even if a link came from the same app, I ended up moving to https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus Not to say you cant use both tho

In Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator

commoner·Feb 5, 2023

Have you tried making a different desktop entry/shortcut for each Firefox profile and then setting a browser picker as your default browser? - Junction (Linux browser picker): https://github.com/sonnyp/Junction - Finicky (macOS browser rule setter): https://github.com/johnste/finicky and Browserosaurus (macOS browser picker): https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus - Hurl (Windows browser picker): https://github.com/U-C-S/Hurl

In Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

jameshiew·Jun 29, 2022Recommendation phrase

Since you mention Mail/Messages, I assume you are on macOS. I had a similar issue - wanting to always open links from Slack in Chrome, but links from elsewhere in Brave. I use Choosy[1] which works well for me, but there look to also be some free/libre alternatives, like Browserosaurus[2] (which I've never tried). [1]: https://www.choosyosx.com/ [2]: https://github.com/will-stone/browserosaurus

In Ask HN: How can I make Mail/Messages links open in Incognito by default?